My thesaurus lists vanity, conceit, self-importance and self-absorption. 類似的同義詞還有虛榮、狂妄、自大和自我專注。
He was a man full of vanity and self-conceit; a man who, instead of sober despatches to his superiors in England, wrote flowery accounts of himself and his wonderful doings; 他虛榮心很強(qiáng)，自命不凡，他不能清醒地對英格蘭的長官述職，而喜歡用華麗的辭藻描述自己的漂亮工作；